On October 31, Mansur Movlaev, who fled from Chechnya to Kyrgyzstan, said that he was being tortured in a Bishkek pretrial detention center. The statement was made in the courtroom, where his appeal against the verdict of deportation from the country was to be considered. The hearing was postponed, the message was sent to the National Center of Kyrgyzstan for the Prevention of Torture.

On September 19, the Federal Financial Monitoring Service of Russia removed former political prisoner, native of Chechnya Zara Murtazalieva, from its List of Terrorists and Extremists. In 2005, she was found guilty of preparing a terrorist attack in Moscow.

On September 1, the Russian Ministry of Justice added journalists Dmitry Muratov and Mairbek Vachagaev to the list of "foreign agents." According to the authorities, they participated "in the creation and dissemination of messages and materials of foreign agents to an unlimited number of people," and these materials were aimed at "forming a negative attitude toward the foreign and domestic policies" of the country.

On September 15, the report of the Special Rapporteur of the UN Council on Human Rights in the Russian Federation was published. This position was established a year ago. The document contains a statement, confirmed by documentary evidence, that "the peaceful exercise of human rights, especially since the start of the full-scale armed attack of the Russian Federation on Ukraine in February 2022", is suppressed by increasingly repressive methods.

Memorial continues to investigate human rights violations in the North Caucasus.

The courts of Dagestan began to publish the first decisions in cases against participants in the riots at the Makhachkala airport. Most of the cases were filed under articles of petty hooliganism and “obstructing transport infrastructure.” Basically, the rioters received several days of arrest for swearing in the street.

A secret witness under the pseudonym “Mustafayev” was unable to answer questions during interrogation in the case of the first Dzhankoy group of Hizb ut-Tahrir. Lawyer Emil Kurbedinov spoke about this. He emphasized that the witness with a high degree of probability “is an agent of the special services” and there was no reason to classify him.

On October 31, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan upheld the decision of the lower court and remanded Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist for the Tatar-Bashkir service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, in custody until December 5. The woman has dual citizenship – Russian and American. She is charged under Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Evasion of duties stipulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation on foreign agents”) – for failing to register as a foreign agent.

On October 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law "On the denunciation of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities." At the end of September, he submitted a corresponding bill to the State Duma. Thus, the Russian Federation withdrew from the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.

On October 13, the 1st Eastern District Military Court in Khabarovsk sentenced Chechen Apti Visaev to 17 years in a special regime penal colony for preparing a terrorist attack in Norilsk. The defendant did not admit guilt and stated that the criminal case against him was fabricated by the FSB.